Overview

About the position

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to build, scale and maintain services at Unbabel.

Unbabel engineers drive things forward and get things done. Our engineers build features today that users will use tomorrow. You must be ready to firefight against scaling or design challenges in real-time. You must not waiver in the face of complexity.

This role is ideal for someone who would enjoy tackling complex and open-ended challenges and thrives in cross-functional, highly collaborative teams.

Read more about Unbabel culture here.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and improve current services and APIs
  • Designing and implementing reliable architectures and services
  • Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
  • Performing task breakdown and prioritization of software development-related activities
  • Maintaining and supporting production services, including monitoring setup and metrics analysis
  • Contributing to a culture of self-improvement and high standards of quality
  • Mentoring other engineers and helping them grow

Must have

  • Experience in writing clean, concise, testable, and maintainable code using Go and/or Python programming language;
  • Experience working with or implementing microservices;
  • Experience in test automation frameworks, optimizing performance and security enabling delivery of robust and maintainable architecture;
  • Experience working in an Agile software engineering environment.

Nice to have

  • Experience using gRPC protocols;
  • Experience with Kubernetes;
  • Experience building, operating, and truly owning services. Implementing alerting, metrics, and logging using Prometheus, Kibana, PagerDuty.
  • DevOps experience (AWS preferred) architecting, configuring cloud technology stacks (Compute, Network Security, API Gateways, VPCs, CDNs, Kafka/MKS, Kubernetes, CI/CD configurations etc.
  • Understanding of AWS (S3, SQS, etc), terraform + Kubernetes.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary at one of Europe’s leading tech startups
  • Stimulating start-up environment committed to diversity and inclusion
  • Individual budget to set up your workstation (mechanical keyboard, mouse, etc.)
  • Stock options
  • Health Insurance
  • Role-related and professional skills training, to support you on your career journey
  • Access to a company mentor to oversee your development in the area of your choice.
  • Free Calm App Subscription
  • Yearly company retreat